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Viggo Mortensen
Charlize Theron
Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce
Robert Duvall
Kodi Smit-McPhee

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Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, a father and son must navigate a lonely, dangerous world following a nuclear holocaust.

01/15/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Brutal but beautiful

The Road is a faithful adaption of Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, and successfully translates his story of a dying world and the father and son trying to survive in it. Viggo Mortensen plays 'The Man', and is perfectly cast as someone willing to do anything to protect his son. He also looks like someone who has endured ten years of life after the end of the world, with a full beard, gaunt face and haunted eyes. Smit-McPhee is believeable as 'the boy' born after the apocalypse, and the relationship between the father and son is believable and affecting. The boy gives the man a reason to live, and also acts as his conscience.

The film is extremely bleak, with the ravaged landscapes painted in grey, only lightened by fires on the horizon or lightening flashing through the sky above. As ...

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3/4 

12/27/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

A road to just A rental

I'm gonna start out rite away and say I never read the book ater seeing the film I really want to read the book because im not sure this movie did it justice I did like the way the end of the world looked and Mortensen did A fine job in the movie but it felt weak at some points left more to desire when watching some scenes and felt like this could have been an Epic but didnt quite reach it hard to explain really it is worth A rent at least

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3/4 

11/29/2009 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

Another strong McCarthy novel to the screen

I had some reservations about whether Cormac McCarthy's excellent novel would do well on the big screen. Hillcoat does an incredible job of creating a bleak, believable post-apocalyptic world. Mortensen and Smit-McPhee are the father and son navigating the countryside determined to find "the coast" where they hope to find other survivors. Along the way they deal with the elements of nature and fend for survival from cannibals. Despite their hardships, their love for one another never wavers and the son never loses hope that some people left in the world can be good. Great acting from both leads. I don't know if those unfamiliar with the novel can appreciate this film, but it is definitely one of the year's best.

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4/4 

11/29/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

A must see...But...

A very bleak look at what the world is like after the end of the world. Viggo Mortensen is fantastic as a man forced to raise his son in a world filled with some of the worst terrors one could imagine. My only problem is, why did all of this happen, it's never explained. Good, but not great. But in a year when most, (I'd say 85%) of the films have been quite terrible, it's a must see. The novel won a Pulitzer Prize maybe I would appreciate the film better if I'd had read it.

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2.5/4